We’re all familiar with the cartoon image of a character stopping a water leak by plugging a finger into the hole, only for another leak to start, needing another finger, and so on, until the character is soaked by a wave of water. It’s a little like the current, fragmented state of mobile security – the range of threats is growing fast, …
All organizations are impacted by a security breach at some point. As the joke goes in the security industry, businesses fall into two categories: those that have been breached and those that don’t know they have been breached. Some organizations don’t know they have had a security incident until the FBI informs them. A breach can have …
Cybercriminal networks are increasingly taking advantage of lax Internet of Things device security to spread malware and create zombie networks, or botnets, unbeknownst to their device owners. When lax security becomes a huge problem Symantec’s Security Response team has discovered that cybercriminals are hijacking home networks and everyday …
The complaint that security is broken isn’t new and even industry insiders are joining the chorus. Companies spent an estimated $75 billion last year on security products and yet cyber attacks and data breaches are still a common occurrence. Now, we’re finding that security tools themselves have vulnerabilities that are putting organizations …
Nearly two years after Facebook open sourced osquery, the social networking giant has made …
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has published newer …
When researchers from Tencent’s Keen Security Lab discovered that they were able to leverage vulnerabilities to remotely hijack Tesla cars, they reported the issues to the automotive company and rushed them into implementing a security …
Nearly a quarter of tech senior decision-makers in the UK don’t fully understand encryption, according to PKWARE. This number increases to 40% in the retail sector and half in the healthcare sector. Overall, only 50% of respondents said …
Female comedian Amy Schumer knocked DJ Armin van Buuren off of the list to become the most dangerous celebrity to search for online, according to Intel Security. Now in its 10th year, the McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities study researched a …
The volume, scope and material cost of cybercrime all remain on an upward trend and have reached very high levels. Some EU Member States now report that the recording of cybercrime offences may have surpassed those associated with traditional …
With the convergence of devices, bots, things and people, organizations will need to master two dimensions of mobility, according to Gartner. CIOs and IT leaders will need to excel at mainstream mobility and to prepare for the post-app era. …
BitSight analyzed the security ratings of nearly 20,000 companies to identify common forms of ransomware and to determine which industries (amongst Finance, Healthcare, Education, Energy/Utilities, Retail, and Government) are most likely to …
Heading into the first presidential debate, 58 percent of Americans feel the presidential candidates are not paying enough attention to cybersecurity, according to LifeLock. The results of the survey, conducted online Sept. 9-13 by Harris Poll …
